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Here in Australia we are still planning to build large coal mines to fuel the furnaces in India and China and for our own power plants. Solar and wind are hippi
by i_feel_great 9y ago
Here in Australia we are still planning to build large coal mines to fuel the furnaces in India and China and for our own power plants. Solar and wind are hippie conspiracies to make us all unemployed and gay, so our politicians keep telling us. You poor fools are doomed!
- jimjimjim 9y agodilemma stable western country with huge amounts of empty land and too much sun makes it fantastic for solar. but an entire economy built on mines and the chinese have reduced their buying of iron so coal it is. and those mines have a lot of voting power.
- Taniwha 9y agoand little water
- canoebuilder 9y agoI'd guess that the amount of energy harvestable in the form of sunlight from otherwise unused land far exceeds the amount of energy in the form of coal resources in Australia. But how to ship it to China and India? Set up some high voltage lines? Convert the locally generated electricity to some form of transportable, easily re-convertible embodied energy?